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Marking a milestone…

13.11.2018

It’s fifteen years this November since we first started looking after healthcare buildings in communities. Since 2003, we’ve been building, investing in and managing GP surgery, primary care and diagnostic and treatment centre premises around the country.

Here are fifteen things you may not know about these sorts of buildings – or about the task of transforming the NHS’s estate for the future, one of our country’s biggest infrastructure challenges:

7. In the BMA’s 2014 research with almost 4,500 GP practices, 40% felt their premises were inadequate, making it a struggle to provide even basic GP services. Seven in ten said their premises are too small to deliver more services.

9. The Five Year Forward View stated that the future of the NHS “no longer sees expertise locked into often outdated buildings,” and promised the expansion of funding to upgrade primary care infrastructure.

10. The Health Secretary’s prevention vision – which calls for increased investment into primary and community health services – builds on existing government plans to increase access to GP services, grow the primary care workforce, encourage practices to work together in networks and improve GP premises by 2020.